What are your wackiest ideas for a “universal” controller layout that would appeal to the fans of the Xbox, Nintendo, and PS layouts? You certainly can’t pick one of the three, that would be lazy and frankly unfair for the other two layouts. It’s got to be something that everyone agrees on, something different!
I’ve got a few ideas: NSEW (the cardinal directions), RGBA (colours, also transparent button could be cool…), or maybe CMYK (printer ink colours for ease of printing)
What are your ideas for the universal controller layout?
It would never catch on, cause people don’t like change :p
But if there was one, it’d probably make sense to go with directions/arrows (←↑↓→) it’d be the least amount of memorization, since everyone from every language can guess that the button you need is the one at the tip of the point in the picture
Those might get mistaken for directional buttons. I had the same thought. Maybe I triangle with the point in the direction of the button, but you may run into the same issue.
I think to avoid that, it might be easiest to just show the four button layout with the correct button highlighted.
That too :3
But any symbols you choose to put on the buttons themselves are gonna be arbitrary mostly
This is what Nintendo does on the Switch when the sideways joycon is supported and it works well. It may break the OP’s rules, though.